Mac was a staff writer between 2021 and 2023 with a special interest in redistricting and democratic reform. While at Democracy Docket, he spearheaded coverage of the ISL theory and the U.S. Supreme Court case Moore v. Harper. Originally from North Carolina, he graduated from Bowdoin College in 2018.
On Thursday, June 8, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) reintroduced S. 1908, the Judicial Ethics and Anti-Corruption Act, legislation that aims to overhaul the nation’s judicial ethics laws.
On Thursday, June 8, the Louisiana Legislature passed House Bill 311, a bill proposing an amendment to the state constitution that would ban the use of private grants to fund election administration.
A long-time advocate of false election claims, Mitchell aided former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election and has become a key player among election-denying activists.
Rather than renounce the conspiratorial thinking and falsehoods that led to Jan. 6, Pence has spent the last two years affirming Republican fears about voter fraud.
The California Senate is considering a recently passed bill — Assembly Bill 969 — which would change how counties handle contracts and plans for voting systems.
Bills would remove election officials and create a process to take over election administration overriding the Democratic stronghold’s election processes.
Ahead of the start of the 2023 regular legislative session, state legislators in Texas filed over 70 voting and elections bills, from proposals expanding mail-in voting to bills creating special election marshals to investigate purported voter fraud.
On Sunday, May 28, the Texas Legislature passed House Bill 1243, a bill raising the penalty for illegal voting to a felony.
On Sunday, May 28, the Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 1933, which would give the secretary of state wide authority to direct how elections are run in Harris County, Texas, the state’s most populous county and a Democratic stronghold.
On Saturday, May 27, the Texas Legislature gave final approval to Senate Bill 1070, a bill that would allow the state to discontinue participation in the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC).